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!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

 
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BEL #701

...Meanwhile, I'd like to wrap up this year's GAMCOD project with a handful of words and insights I gleaned from the process. Here's the last video entry for this year's go at the GAMCOD. Enjoy!

 
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I'm glad to have some solid evidence that permaculture really works. Talk the talk and walk the walk.
 
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Hi Stephen

My initial though is that you haven't allowed any space around the hugels for access.  If you allowed say 4' alongside each hugel (enough to run a smallish cart up between them to aid with a more effortless harvest), that would change your width to 12', so 300sqft, reducing your full acre output to 2,986,836.6 Cals. Not sure if this sounds more realistic...

Edit - it appears my thoughts have already been raised by others in a different time zone (pathetic excuse for not reading other comments first!)
 
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